REGENTS PROFESSOR JILL MCCLUSKEY JOINS NATIONAL ACADEMIES NEW FOOD, NUTRITION, AND AG COMMITTEE

PULLMAN, Wash., Aug. 26 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:

Jill McCluskey, Regents Professor and director of the School of Economic Sciences, is an inaugural member of theNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's newly establishedFood, Nutrition, and Agriculture Program Advisory Committee.

Beginning her two-year term July 1, McCluskey will help guide national science priorities and policies in human and animal nutrition, safe food, and agricultural production.

Jill McCluskey

"My goal is to provide information and analysis that is beneficial to society in terms of health, nutrition, and economic performance," she said.

An award-winning researcher in the economics of food demand, product q...